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The Flaming Lips: Waitin' for a superman

Paul Lester, Uncut, August 2002

The Flaming Lips, the world's most inventive band, have followed up Uncut's album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin, with a record about death, overcoming sadness, and Japanese fighting girls. Paul Lester meets Lips Brainiac Wayne Coyne in Oklahoma.

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